by admin | Sep 25, 2019 | Personal Narrative
It was a big year. 42 was the year I made the decision to leave my job. A dream job in a lot of ways (not so much in other ways). At 42 I made the choice to leave steady employment in order to reconnect with my life outside of work; as much a leap as it was...
by admin | Jan 28, 2019 | Life Lessons, Personal Development
My first claustrophobic experience happened when I was pregnant with my 5th child while army crawling on my belly through a dark cave in the Ella Valley. I know, I was as shocked as you are. I remember the guide saying, “Ma’am, I don’t think...
by admin | May 4, 2016 | Life Lessons, Personal Narrative
Sirens blared throughout Israel today for National Holocaust Remembrance Day. Its rise is not subtle, no foreplay. Within a second flat, there is no space between my ears for anything else. A flash flood of feelings storm in me with the siren’s ring – it...
by admin | Jan 21, 2016 | Life Lessons
It’s not every day that an average citizen gets the opportunity to be first to respond at a major car accident, but such was my lot last Wednesday afternoon. I was first on scene and among the last to leave. I had just finished an intense and productive meeting with...
by admin | Nov 22, 2015 | Life Lessons, Music and G-d, The Mother-load
To my daughters, I’ve loved you since before you were even plausible. I’m doing my best to raise you right. So, before you lift your sweet, adolescent hands to your head and encase your impressionable ears to the candy-crushing pull of pop music, I need you to hear...